Debbie Rowe | Known people - famous people news and biographies ← Eve Torres John Holmes → One he loved, the other gave birth to his children, but no one did not make him happy. Added (26-08-2010, 18:22) Presley, Lisa Marie Lisa Marie Presley; 1 Lisa Marie Presley (english. Lisa Marie Presley; February 1, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, USA) – the singer and the only daughter of singer Elvis Presley and his wife Priscilla Bol Presli.Edinstvennaya daughter of singer Elvis Presley. Born in Memphis, Tennessee. Lisa Marie was trained in many schools, mainly boarding schools. School Los Angeles rejected its presence, mainly due to the illicit use of drugs, particularly cocaine. Lisa Marie for a while was a student of the school of the Church of Scientology, located in Los Angeles. Lisa Marie singing career start after meeting with a famous actress, author and performer of songs by Linda Thompson, who for some time had a close relationship with her father Elvis Presley. To Whom It May Concern.

The first debut album Lisa Marie released in April 2003 and called it To Whom It May Concern. Now What. Later followed by the album Now What. Lisa Marie and her mother, Priscilla Presley were presented Bole Church of Scientology John Travolta. Lisa started using drugs at the age of 13, but with the active help of the church, she got rid of drug addiction at the age of seventeen. At the same time she Lisa Marie claims that have never experimented with drugs. In 2002 she and businessman Neil Bush (brother of President George W. Bush), performed together at a hearing of the Congress of the United States against the drug treatment of children with mental disorders. Elvis And Me (The life story of her parents together, birth and childhood to the death of his father in 1977 were described in the book her mother Elvis And Me (Elvis and I). Personal life Lisa Marie was married four times. The first marriage to Danny Kew on October 3, 1988.

From this marriage Danny and Lisa Marie had two children, Danielle Riley Keoh, born May 29, 1989, and Benjamin Storm, born on October 21, 1992. Lisa Marie divorced Denny Kew May 6, 1994. Two weeks after the divorce became official, Lisa Marie married Michael Jackson (18 May 1994). However, their marriage lasted only 20 months. Also, Lisa Marie was married to Nicolas Cage (2002-2004). Their marriage also ended in divorce. In 2006, the singer married for the fourth time, it was the chosen one, Michael Lockwood, a guitarist and producer. 7 October 7, 2008 Lisa Marie Presley gave birth to two daughters, twins, Harper and Finley. Added (26-08-2010, 18:54) Debbie Rowe met Michael Jackson in the mid-1980s, while working as an assistant at the pop star’s dermatologist Dr. Arnold Klein.

Rowe Jackson treated vitiligo, which he was diagnosed in 1986 and which still bring harm to his appearance before the end of his life. [34] [35] Rowe Jackson supported by answering questions Jackson about his state of health. The pair became good friends; pop star often sent copyrights products woman who hung them on the walls of the office. According to Rowe girlfriend, Tanya Boyd, assistant bent on Jackson idolized him and his qualities. She said to her friend: “If people only knew him as I do, they would not think he was strange. It is a unique, vibrant, in fact. “[35] Friendship Jackson-Rowe will continue for several years, during which the assistant to marry and divorce Edlmanom Richard, a man with whom, she said, she was trapped. Rowe and musician talked about a failed marriage; Hollywood High School. Presley him and her – with Eldamnom, a teacher at Hollywood High School. Like the first wife of Jackson, Rowe supported the entertainer when he was accused of child molestation.

Jackson kept his friendship with Rowe in secret from his wife, who then still recognized, but did not think her rival; she thought that the dermatologist’s assistant was not in the taste of her husband, because she was not glamorous enough. When Presley refused to bear a child of Jackson, Rowe offered to give birth to the pop singer. Immediately after the divorce, Presley and Jackson, Rowe became pregnant, but she had a miscarriage in March 1996. The event shocked the woman, who was afraid that he would never be able to give birth to larger. Jackson reassured and comforted Row ordeal, which has remained hidden from the media and the public. HIStory World Tour Jackson went into the first leg of the tour HIStory World Tour in September 1996. After the first month on the tour and a few months after her divorce from Presley, Jackson’s personal life has been in the headlines since it was discovered that Debbie Rowe bore his child.

News of the World In the tabloid newspaper News of the World told the story under the headline “I have a child of Jackson.”Rowe responded furiously to the publication, branding staff edition of”bastards”and complained that they were informed about the history, as if she and Jackson were drug addicts. Randy Taraborelli later remarked that the article, which was collected from a secret tape recording between Rowe and her friend, got straight to the point. She tells in detail what Jackson was the father of the baby, and that he will grow up the child himself. She also stated that Jackson made the child Rowe artificially using his sperm,”right”method of fertilization. Later the journalists stated that relations were”economic”; she got a taste of money, and he saw the baby. When news of the pregnancy Rowe came to Jackson’s mother Katherine Jackson family ancestor persuaded his son to marry the mother yet unborn son. Katherine did not want that to her son was like a father who sired an illegitimate child from another woman while married to the mother of Jackson. Catherine first talked on the phone with Rowe about virginity before marriage and the faith of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Then she spoke with Jackson, telling him to marry”this cute girl Debby”and”give the child his name, did not like his poor stepsister Dzho’Vonni.” The words were echoed at the musician, who did not want to repeat the sins of the father. Before the words had Katherine Rowe had the intention to become a surrogate mother; it would give Jackson a baby as a friendly support, and he raised it. Jackson had intended to issue a statement after the birth, the identity of the mother is classified as surrogate mothers, many of the individual are protected. At the insistence of Catherine, however, Jackson Rowe called and asked to meet her in Australia, where he could stay as long as possible. There entertainer made his plans for their wedding right away the next day. Sheraton Park Hotel Jackson and Rowe were married November 13, 1996, at the Sheraton at the Park Hotel in Sydney. The night before the wedding, Jackson called Presley, who gave him a blessing, and Rowe. Before 15 friends couple exchanged vows at the biggest city in Australia. A witness at the wedding was the 8-year-old boy, Anthony, who, according to Jackson, was his nephew.

For this case, Jackson specifically prihoroshilsya. Randy Taraborrelli wrote in Michael Jackson: The Life of King: «Michael has put concealer and transparent powder, which made him almost completely white. He had a black eyeliner on the eyes, almond-shaped eyes secretes, they stood out like two coals. He singled out the nose and cheeks bronzer. His eyebrows were plucked and blackened. He was wearing a black hat and curls on both sides of the face. Also it was fake tanks. The overall effect was stunning, so to speak, in the style of Disneyland.” The reaction of the media and the public for the wedding was negative and skeptical. Some commentators thought that Jackson married unloved, and it is unknown whether the child is at Rowe biologically from Jackson or not. Daily Mirror, Daily Mirror, a British tabloid newspaper published a photo of Rowe on the balcony of the Australian hotel. On it she held her head. One biographer, Jackson said the frightened woman and angry posture was probably due to excessive proximity paparazzi. Daily Mirror, Daily Mirror, however, issued photo mockingly crying:”Oh, God!

I just married Michael Jackson.” The first joint child Jackson and Rowe, Michael Joseph Jackson ml. (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center also known as the”Prince Michael”), was born on February 13, 1997 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Kid named after the grandfather of Michael, and great-grandfather, both named Printsami.Rou announced that she was pregnant with a second child from Jackson in November 1997. She gave birth to a girl whom she named Paris, after the French city where, according to the parents she was born. Rowe asked for Jackson’s divorce, which he guaranteed without objection 8 October 1999. v1018826 – Post edited v1018826 – Thursday, 08.26.2010, 19:02 Debbie Rowe - Bio, Facts, Family | Famous Birthdays Famous Birthdays Average nurse who became an international subject after marrying pop icon Michael Jackson . BEFORE FAME She worked as a nurse in a dermatology office.

TRIVIA She married Michael Jackson on November 14, 1996 and they had their first child three months later. FAMILY LIFE She divorced her second husband, Michael Jackson, after 3 years of marriage and had two children named Prince and Paris . ASSOCIATED WITH Debbie Rowe - Nurse - Biography.com Debbie Rowe Debbie Rowe is known as the surrogate mother for two of pop star Michael Jackson's children. IN THESE GROUPS Famous Nurses Synopsis Debbie Rowe worked at a dermatologist's office in Los Angeles when she met Michael Jackson, a patient at the office. Rowe befriended Jackson and they struck an agreement for her to have his children. In February 1997, Rowe gave birth to Michael "Prince" Jackson, and in April 1998, the couple's second child, Paris Katherine, was born. Rowe gave up and then sued to regain custody, but she never did. Early Life Hollywood personality Deborah Jeanne Rowe was born on December 6, 1958. The adopted daughter of a millionaire couple from Malibu, California, Rowe had a lonely childhood. She was 30 before she had her first serious relationship, and the break-up hit her very hard.

Rowe was still recovering from the split, and working as a nurse at a dermatologist's office in Los Angeles, when she met pop star Michael Jackson. Jackson had been diagnosed with vitiligo in the mid-1980s, and was a frequent patient at the office. Marriage to Michael Jackson Rowe befriended Jackson and, over time, he told her about his desire to be a father. Rowe offered to have his children, and the couple struck an agreement. In early 1996, Rowe announced that she was pregnant with Jackson's heir, although the details on how that occurred remain a mystery. In November 1996, when Rowe was six months pregnant, she and Jackson married at a hotel in Sydney, Australia. Despite their surprise nuptials, the couple never lived together as husband and wife. In February 1997, Rowe gave birth to Michael "Prince" Jackson. The baby spent several hours in special care before Jackson rushed him to his Neverland Ranch, where a team of nannies stood waiting. Several months later, Rowe announced that she was pregnant again. On April 3, 1998, the couple's second child, Paris Katherine, was born.

Jackson later told reporters that he was so excited about the birth that he wrapped the baby in a towel and fled home shortly after the cord was cut. Divorce After Paris' birth, Rowe couldn't bear Jackson any more children. The couple's relationship became strained, and Rowe filed for divorce six months later. In 1999, she accepted a settlement of more than $6 million as well as ownership of the couples' Beverly Hills mansion. In return, Rowe gave up her custodial rights to the children, and agreed to one visit every 45 days. Two years later, she applied to the court to terminate her parental rights completely, claiming it was in the childrens' best interest. During this time, Rowe studied at an online university to earn degrees in criminal law and psychology. In 2005, when Jackson was accused of molesting a young boy, Rowe told the court he was a loving and caring father. During the case she revealed that she had not seen Jackson or her children for several years, which discredited her testimony. Jackson was later acquitted on all counts. Attempt to Restore Parental Rights In 2006, Rowe took Jackson back to court in order to have her parental rights restored.

During the case she also complained that Jackson had stopped paying her. The case was settled out of court. Rowe sold the house shortly after and moved to Palmdale, California, to raise and breed horses. She stayed out of the public eye until June 25, 2009, when her ex-husband died of mysterious causes. In Jackson's will, he named his mother, Katherine, as guardian of his and Rowe's two eldest children. Since Jackson's death, there have been rumors about Rowe seeking custody of her children with the late pop star. But she has yet to take any official legal action. Rowe has, however, developed a bond with daughter Paris. The pair has been photographed together several times in recent years. In 2014, Rowe became engaged to Marc Schaffel, a music producer and a friend of her late ex-husband. Fact Check We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us !

Citation Information Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe | Married Divorced Children Ex | FamousHookups.com Check out our New "Top 10 Newest Celebrity Dads" Relationship Information, Quotes, and Trivia Where and/or how did Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe meet? The pair first met in the mid-1980s, when Jackson was diagnosed with vitiligo and Debbie was working as the nurse for Michael's Dermatologist. Why did Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe break up? Other Relationship Information about Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe: Jackson says that Deborah wanted to give him children as a "gift." In early 1996 she was artificially inseminated, possibly through IVF, though she refuses to talk about the details. Whether it was with Jackson's sperm or an anonymous donor's - more likely given the light-coloured skin of the children she produced - Rowe is not saying. The couple married at the Sheraton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, in November 1996, when Rowe was six months pregnant with their son. The bride was 37, Jackson 38, and the best man was an eight-year-old boy.

Their marriage was consummated with a peck on the cheek from Jackson, who retired - without her - to another room. There's no evidence to suggest the couple ever had normal sexual relations. The newly-weds returned to LA, but never lived as husband and wife. The original divorce settlement allowed her one visit every 45 days, though she later applied to the court herself to terminate her parental rights altogether, claiming it was in the children's best interests. Debbie spent many years treating his illness as well as providing emotional support. They built a strong friendship, then became romantically involved. Originally there were no plans to marry, but following Rowe's first pregnancy, Jackson's mother intervened and persuaded them to do so. Michael later claimed that he was in such a rush to leave the hospital with daughter Paris in 1998 that he cut the cord and left with the baby covered in blood, taking the placenta with him in his haste. After the couple divorced in 1999, with Rowe giving full custody rights of the children to Jackson, they remained friends.

Nearly a week after Michael's death, a will that he created in 2002 named his mother, Katherine Jackson, and his children as the beneficiaries of most of his estate. He left a portion of this estate to charitable organizations. Michael delegated the rights of guardianship and care for his children to his mother, as well. However, in the event that his mother died before him or was unable to be the sole guardian of his chilren, he delegated this role to Diana Ross, formerly of The Supremes, and the person who discovered The Jackson Five. Michael intentionally left no assets to his ex-wife, Debbie Rowe, and made the same decision concerning his father, Joe Jackson, cutting him completely out of his will. On June 25, 2009, Jackson collapsed at his rented mansion at 100 North Carolwood Drive in the Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles which his children witnessed. Attempts at resuscitating him by his personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, were unsuccessful. Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics received a 911 call at 12:22 p.m.

(PDT), arriving three minutes and seventeen seconds later at Jackson's location.He was reportedly not breathing and CPR was performed. Resuscitation efforts continued both en route to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, and for an hour further after arriving at approximately 1:13 p.m. (20:13 UTC). He was noted to have been in cardiac arrest by the paramedics who attended him at his house. Jackson was pronounced dead at approximately 2:26 p.m. local time (21:26 UTC). Rumors and news of Jackson's death broke web records, triggering a cyberspace traffic jam and creating severe traffic spikes to websites such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia. Vigils were held by members of the general public after the death. In August 2009, Michael Jackson's death was ruled a homicide by the Los Angeles Department of the Coroner. His death was attributed to lethal injections of the sedative, Propofol, which were administered by Dr. Conrad Murray hours before he was pronounced dead. A live public memorial service was held on July, 7 2009 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California in honor of Michael which aired on multiple television networks.

In attendance was family and friends, as well as thousands of fans who obtained tickets via an internet lottery. On September 3, 2009, a private funeral service was held at Forest Lawn Cemetary in Glendale, California for Michael that was attended by family, friends, associates and a host of celebrities including Elizabeth Taylor, Reverend Al Sharpton and Barry Bonds. Add other Relationship Information Classic Quotes by Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe about their relationship: "They have a relationship, and what people don't understand is his relationship with her is separate from his relationship with me. They're friends, they're very good friends...I am glad that they have a relationship together. I am glad to see them together; they have a lot in common." Debbie Rowe "The veils were my idea, not Michael's. I had kidnap threats when they were babies. I did not want them to be recognized. I'm not happy they've been photographed without the veils." Debbie Rowe 2/8/2008 "I don't need money. Michael and I are fine. I see him and the kids all the time.

They live in Las Vegas now, just a three-hour drive away." Debbie Rowe 2/8/2008 "I'd never seen Michael so happy and that's what made it so wonderful for me. Of course it was artificial insemination. Paris was conceived in Paris, that's how she got her name. Michael wanted to call her Princess, but I thought that was stupid." Debbie Rowe 2/8/2008 "I had so many problems when I was pregnant with Paris. After that I couldn't have any more children. Michael was upset about that, he couldn't understand it. He wanted more babies." Debbie Rowe 2/8/2008 "It always has been. Michael and I have always got on. I only divorced him because I wanted my life back. I couldn't cope with the constant pressure of fame. He's the genius, the famous one. Not me. I turned out two good-looking kids, but I can't sing, I can't dance." Debbie Rowe 2/8/2008 "I used to be an extrovert, but my marriage made me introverted. I was followed everywhere. I hated the fame.

After I married Michael, it was hard to keep working. Staff at the clinic sold stories about me to the media. People were offered a million dollars for a picture of me pregnant. I even told my family to sell one; I thought they could do with the money. But they refused." Debbie Rowe 2/8/2008 "[The kids] love music. They are very much into the arts. [But] I don't push them." Michael Jackson 1/2009 "I want to be the best father in the world." Michael Jackson 2005 "I didn't do it to be a mother. I didn't change diapers. I didn't get up in the middle of the night, even when I was there, Michael did it all. I did it for him to become a father, not for me to become a mother. You earn the title parent. I have done absolutely nothing to earn that title." Debbie Rowe 2003 "Do I want the kids? Hell no. Does it look good for me to ask for them? Absolutely.

I don't want to look like the woman who gave away her kids and just forgot about them." Debbie Rowe 7/5/2009 What Do We Know About Michael Jackson's Ex Wife Debbie Rowe? | Contactmusic.com What Do We Know About Michael Jackson's Ex Wife... What Do We Know About Michael Jackson's Ex Wife Debbie Rowe? Just who is Debbie Rowe , the ex wife of Michael Jackson ? Debbie Rowe might have once been married to one of the most famous men in the world, Michael Jackson , but really little is known about the woman herself. Right now she’s found herself back in the media after announcing her engagement to Michael’s former business manager, Marc Schaffel. But who is the woman who was once married to the King of Pop? Debbie Rowe, ex wife of Michael Jackson Deborah Rowe was born in 1958 and adopted by a wealthy family living in Malibu, California. She is said to have had a very lonely upbringing and didn't had her first serious relationship until aged 30. After the break up, Rowe went to work at the office of dermatologist for Dr Arnold Klein, Klein’s most famous client was Michael Jackson, who was being treated at the clinic for vitiligo.

Jackson was recently divorced from his first wife Lisa Marie Presley and is said to have struck up a close friendship with Rowe soon after. The story goes, that Jackson and Rowe became fast friends and the singer soon revealed to the nurse that he wanted to become a father. Debbie, who had been a lifelong fan of Michael’s then offered to carry a child for him. The rest of the details are pretty sketchy and since Michael’s death many rumors have been thrown around. What we do know is that in early 1996 it was announced that Rowe was pregnant with Jackson’s first child and by November the couple were married. Michael’s first child Michael "Prince" Jackson was born in February 1997. Just over a year later, a daughter Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson was born. Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe were married from 1996 to 1999 The couple were generally considered to have a somewhat unconventional relationship. Despite being married and having children together they reportedly never lived together. Michael was also seen to be the sole carer of their two children.

Rowe stayed away from the media during her marriage to Jackson, she never gave interviews and was said to not enjoy the publicity that went along with being Jackson’s wife. Jackson and Rowe would divorce in 1999, six months after the birth of Paris. According to reports at the time, Rowe accepted a settlement of more than $6 million from Jackson and in return gave up her custody rights to the two children. Rowe agreed only to see her two children every 45 days. In 2006, she seemed to have a change of heart and took Jackson to court in order to have her parental rights restored. The case was latter settled out of court and Rowe retreated from the media once again, this time to start a new life as a horse breeder. When Michael Jackson died to 2009, his will named his mother Katherine as the guardian of his three children. Michael, Paris and their younger brother Prince Michael (also known as Blanket), have been raised by their grandmother and Jackson’s nephew TJ since their father's death. In the months following her ex husband’s death Rowe would take Katherine Jackson to court over her visitation rights to the two children.

They eventually settled out of court with Rowe being granted supervised visits to Prince Michael and Paris. Debbie Rowe and Michael Jackson's daughter, Paris In the years following Jackson’s death, Rowe seems to have grown closer to her two children, especially Paris. Rowe has also been dating Marc Schaffel, the former business manager of Michael, whom she has been friends with for years. She also recently got the all clear after a cancer scare earlier in the year. Now TMZ are reporting that the former nurse is seeking custody of all three of Michael’s children, including Blanket, whom she is not the mother of. Rowe is reportedly concerned that Katherine is too old to look after the children and that there’s been too much negative influence from Jackson’s brothers. Whether or not Rowe will be successful in gaining custody of the children remains to be seen, but if she does end up taking on the Jackson family in court we can imagine her to be back in the headlines once again and we will surely be in for a long ride. Debbie Rowe Pictures - Debbie Rowe Net Worth Debbie Rowe Pictures Read more... Debbie Rowe Debbie Rowe Net Worth is $25 Million.

Debbie Rowe is an ex-wife of pop singer, Michael Jackson, and the mother of two of his children, she has a net worth of $25 million. Debbie Rowe's net worth has come from her marriage to Michael as well as her ca. Deborah Jeanne "Debbie" Rowe... Debbie Rowe Net Worth is $25 Million. Debbie Rowe Net Worth is $25 Million. Debbie Rowe is an ex-wife of pop singer, Michael Jackson, and the mother of two of his children, she has a net worth of $25 million. Debbie Rowe's net worth has come from her marriage to Michael as well as her ca Deborah Jeanne "Debbie" Rowe is an ex-wife of Michael Jackson, and the mother of two of his children. She lives in Palmdale, California. Rowe was born into a middle class family. Her father Gordon divorced her mother Barbara a few weeks before her second birthday. Debbie was raised by her mother, a few aunts, and maternal grandmother. She has one half-sister named Loretta Scarlett Rowe who was born in 1961. Rowe met Michael Jackson while working as a nurse in Dr.

Arnold Klein's dermatology office, where Jackson was being treated for vitiligo. She recalled that after Jackson's divorce from Lisa Marie Presley in 1996, he was upset at the possibility that he might never become a father. Rowe, a longtime Jackson fan, proposed to bear his children. It was announced she was pregnant in 1996, and the two were later married on November 14, 1996, in Sydney, Australia. It was her second marriage, her first being to Richard Edelman in 1988. Three months after R... What Friends Are for What Friends Are for Pinterest A hasty wedding raises more questions than it answers WHEN MICHAEL JACKSON DECIDES to get married, he doesn’t exactly wait for June to roll around. On the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 12, Debbie Rowe—six months pregnant and apparently feeling it—said goodbye to her two beloved dogs, left in the care of neighbors in her Van Nuys, Calif., apartment complex, and boarded a jet bound for Australia.

When she touched down in Sydney—Wednesday afternoon local time, after 14 hours in the air—the 37-year-old dermatologist’s assistant was whisked by limo to the Sheraton on the Park hotel. There, she disappeared into the $2,750-a-night Presidential Suite and rested. The following day, Jackson performed to a sellout crowd of 40,000 at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Then, around midnight, as the singer joined 30 or so associates at a post-concert party in a private room downstairs, Rowe slipped into something white and put on her makeup. At about 2 a.m., Jackson and a few pals made their way upstairs. The superstar sat down at a grand piano in the two-bedroom suite and played the Wagner march known to millions as “Here Comes the Bride” while Rowe entered and, after 15 years as Jackson’s friend, became officially embroiled in his strange—and increasingly troubled—world. “Please respect our privacy,” Jackson, 38, said in a release after the event, “and let us enjoy this wonderful and exciting time.” How many days had elapsed since Jackson confirmed that he and Rowe were expecting a child? Ten.

How many questions about the groom had been resolved by the hasty civil ceremony? Zero. The singer’s second marriage happened so fast, in fact, many people didn’t even realize he was already divorced from Lisa Marie Presley, 28, whom he wed in May of 1994 and separated from 20 months later. Their split became official last August, with no regrets on either side. “They fell out of love,” says Presley’s attorney John Coale. “Anything she feels is going to remain private.” Rowe is already finding out how hard it is to know both privacy and the King of Pop. From the moment she was thrust into the spotlight by Jackson’s announcement that she was expecting, she has had to live with speculation that her baby is in part a public-relations ploy. Friends of Jackson’s insist that the marriage and pregnancy have nothing to do with his reported $15 to $20 million settlement of a child molestation suit in 1994, a just-published book about that case, or a new civil case being pressed in Santa Barbara (Calif.) superior court by the alleged victim’s father. Still, even Rowe’s father has expressed skepticism.

Last week, Gordon Rowe, 67, a retired cargo pilot who lives in Cyprus, was quoted at length in News of the World, the racy British tabloid that reportedly broke the story of Jackson’s involvement with Debbie earlier this month. As published in NOW, Rowe knew his daughter was friendly with Jackson but was stunned when she told him of her pregnancy. “I said, ‘Isn’t this the same man who was accused of child abuse?'” Rowe reportedly told Debbie. As published in NOW, Rowe said Debbie dismissed the allegations. “She said, ‘None of the charges against him were proved.'” She reportedly did not, however, dismiss reports—denied by the Jackson camp—of artificial insemination. “Isn’t he capable of fathering a child like anyone else?” asked her father. “She laughed and said, ‘Michael doesn’t do anything like anyone else. Dad, you have no idea who the real Michael Jackson is. He is the most compassionate person I have met in my life.’ ” Rowe’s father has since issued a general retraction of his NOW statements. Her friends insist that Rowe is acting out of the goodness of her heart.

“I know she doesn’t want the publicity,” says Rowe’s pal Mary Colandro, 35, a tennis coach who has lived next door to Rowe for nine years. “She’s done all this for Michael. She told us she was having the baby for Michael as a friend.” She also told neighbors she was not artificially inseminated. “She said it was natural, and I believe her,” says Colandro. “On the other hand, she is Michael’s good friend. She is very loyal to him.” Until recently, Rowe’s life was hardly the stuff of which cover stories are made. Born in Spokane, Wash., to Gordon Rowe and Barbara Chilcutt in 1958, Deborah Jeanne Rowe had moved to California by the time she was 15. About that time, her parents were divorced, and, according to NOW, her father took off for the Middle East. Soon after graduating from Hollywood High School in 1977, Rowe began working in the Beverly Hills office of dermatologist Arnold Klein. One former patient is still grateful for the care Rowe gave her father. “She held his hand during the surgery,” says the patient, “and called to follow up. She is the right hand to Dr. Klein.

She really kept the business going.” In 1982, Rowe married Richard Edelman, then a 30-year-old teacher at Hollywood High. The couple moved into a condominium in Van Nuys, where Edelman started his own computer consulting business. According to a pharmacist with whom Rowe had developed a friendship over the years, Edelman was “too quiet” for Rowe, a woman who, he fondly notes, “used language like a trooper but was always very pleasant.” By the time their marriage fell apart in 1988, a major problem seemed to be money. In 1989, Rowe and Edelman filed for bankruptcy, with assets of less than $40,000 and debts of more than $73,000. To friends, Rowe has always seemed a good-hearted woman, most comfortable in jeans and T-shirts and not much makeup. She has two dogs, a golden retriever named Cuervo, after the Mexican tequila, and Harley, a German shepherd named for the motorcycle Rowe loves to ride when she’s not at the wheel of a truck. “If anyone has problems, she handles them,” says Colandro.

“She’s a great rescuer.” No doubt Jackson saw these qualities some 15 years ago, when he first met Rowe at the office of Dr. Klein, who was reportedly treating Jackson for vitiligo, a condition that causes skin discoloration through loss of pigment. Over the years, she and Dr. Klein accompanied Jackson on various world tours, and Rowe befriended the superstar. A few posters of Jackson popped up on her apartment walls, but no one was likely to hear Jackson’s “Billie Jean” blaring from Rowe’s stereo. “She seemed to prefer New Age,” says Colandro, “or easy listening.” Though Rowe dated several men in the years after her divorce, pals say Jackson wasn’t one of them. And as far as anyone knew, she was not in a relationship last spring, when Rowe surprised her pharmacist friend with the news that she was expecting a child. “I’m doing a favor,” the pharmacist recalls her saying, “for a good friend.” Most of her neighbors knew that the good friend was Jackson. He had just split with Presley in January, less than seven months after telling Prime-Time Live that he and Lisa Marie wanted to start a family.

Apparently, Rowe was ready to give Jackson the child Presley did not. At first their plan took an unhappy turn, friends say, when Rowe miscarried last spring. “She was really sad for about a week,” says Colandro. But her pharmacist friend says she quickly bounced back. “She’s that kind of a gal,” he explains. “She doesn’t get heartbroken.” As the world now knows, another attempt to conceive a child proved successful. But would Rowe raise the baby in her $840-a-month, one-bedroom apartment? Or would Jackson take custody and raise their child on his 2,700-acre Santa Ynez Valley Neverland ranch, complete with zoo and amusement park? How would the couple interact over time? Would money change hands? When it came to marriage, Jackson seemed to want to act first and figure out the details later. A week before the Sydney wedding, his lawyers contacted the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Christchurch, New Zealand. (Jackson had show dates in Auckland on Nov. 10 and 11.) They filled out registration forms for Jackson and Rowe and asked marriage celebrant Anne Stubbersfield to be ready on short notice—which never came.

“I’m sorry I didn’t get to marry him,” she says with a laugh. “New Zealand could have been put on the map.” In the end, of course, that honor went to Australia, where, as Elton John told talk show host Rosie O’Donnell last week, “all the loonies get married.” (Now openly gay, Elton married a sound engineer, Renate Blauel, in Sydney in 1984; they divorced four years later in Britain.) But how loony is Jackson, really? If ever he could have been described as blissfully wacky, that no longer seems to apply. Three years after he was accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy in 1993, Jackson is still dealing with the fallout. Five former employees are suing him for wrongful termination, claiming they were threatened, harassed and forced to quit during the police investigation into the charges. A book on the case by author Victor Gutierrez—filled with legal papers, bank statements and photos—was published in Chile in September and has sold some 5,000 copies Stateside.

And though he negotiated the multimillion-dollar settlement from Jackson in 1994, the father of the boy Jackson allegedly had molested recently hit the singer with another $60 million lawsuit. According to one of the father’s lawyers, James E. Prosser, Jackson violated the terms of the settlement, which required him to make no public statements about the case, when he told Prime Time Live‘s Diane Sawyer last year that the accusations were “lies, lies, lies, lies.” In addition, the suit claims that anti-Semitic lyrics in Jackson’s HIStory album (which were later changed by Jackson, who issued a public apology) were aimed at the boy and his father. Jackson is, in other words, a man who could use a “great rescuer” like Rowe—and his friends know it. “She’s a really gentle person, very loving,” says Stephen Millard, marketing director at Epic International Artists, Jackson’s label in Australia. Adds another associate: “Lisa Marie had a mind of her own. Debbie is not involved in the limelight. She is very easygoing.” So easygoing that she spent her first day as Mrs.

Michael Jackson on her own—while her hubby, surrounded by his usual entourage of associates and kids, cuddled a koala at Sydney’s Taronga Park Zoo. Later, Jackson went, without Rowe, to the Australian preview of his new 35-minute film “Ghosts”, a horror/music video. At the entrance to the theatre, the singer was surrounded by fans, one of whom gave him a pair of blue baby booties, which he clung to during the screening. Rowe remained out of sight for the next few days as she, Jackson and several colleagues traveled from Sydney to Brisbane to Melbourne. Nor was she at the hospitals he visited, the events he attended or the concerts he gave. “She’s six months pregnant,” says a spokesperson for Jackson’s concert promoter. “She wants to rest.” Or hide. Rowe has been getting a crash course in what it means to do “a favor” for a famous friend—as have many of her pals back home. In Van Nuys, one old buddy has turned down tabloid offers adding up to $20,000 for private details of Rowe’s life. “I guess it’s about integrity,” says her friend. “But it’s hard,” he adds with a laugh.

His friend Debbie doesn’t have it easy either, being married to a man who once had too little childhood and now may have way too much money and freedom. If Jackson wants the world’s sympathy, he has a tough row to hoe, but if it’s advice he’s after, there’s no shortage of givers. In Christchurch, Anne Stubbersfield may have lost her shot at performing Jackson’s ceremony, but she still has words of wisdom. He should “think seriously” about his future as a husband and a father. Take classes in parenting. Get prepared. “You’ve got to be normal now,” says Stubbersfield. In his own way, Michael seems to be trying. KAREN S.

SCHNEIDER MONICA RIZZO, JOHN HANNAH and LYNDON STAMBLER in Los Angeles, JULIE BEUN-CHOWN, DENNIS PASSA and SHELLI-ANNE COUCH in Australia, KIRSTEN WARNER in New Zealand and PETER MIKELBANK in France Show Full Article Debbie Rowe: Why She Had Michael Jackson's Children - ABC News ABC News Debbie Rowe: Why She Had Jackson's Children By RICHARD GERDAU Email Thousands of Michael Jackson 's friends, fans and family members attended a memorial for the pop icon Tuesday in Los Angeles, but one person who was conspicuously absent from the ceremony was a woman to whom he had once been married and who bore his two oldest children -- Debbie Rowe . Play null For nearly a decade, Rowe had almost no contact with those children -- an estrangement, she told a court in 2001, of her own choosing. But increasingly, it looks as though Rowe will seek custody of Jackson's children , defying the singer's will and wishes that his two sons and daughter, ages 7 to 12, be cared for by his mother, Katherine Jackson.

Watch "Primetime Family Secrets: The Children of Michael Jackson" Tonight at 10 p.m. ET As with the death of any monarch, the passing of the King of Pop has caused chaos in his empire. But of all the rumors whispered and speculation spread, of all the questions left unanswered surrounding the death and life of Michael Jackson, perhaps most intriguing of all is how the most famous man in the world married and started a family with a cipher who worked in his dermatologist's office. It was 30 years ago that Rowe, a nursing assistant in the office of Dr. Arnold Klein, a Beverly Hills, Calif., dermatologist, first met one of his famed clients -- Michael Jackson . "I go 'Hi'. And he goes 'Hi,' and I said, 'You know what? Nobody does what you do better, and nobody does what I do better. Let's get this over with.' And he laughed, and we just became friends. It was just right away," said Rowe in a 2003 interview . The interview, much of which had never been aired before, was obtained exclusively by ABC News from F. Marc Schaffel Productions. Schaffel is a friend of Rowe and former associate of Jackson.

The interview, like many of her statements in the first few years after her marriage and amicable divorce from Jackson, painted the singer as a loving father, to whom she was happy to turn over her children. Not long after the 2003 interview, however, Rowe would take Jackson to court to have her parental rights reinstated. That legal maneuver, some say, may prove critical if she chooses to fight for custody of Jackson's children. Before their chance meeting, the closest Rowe, a Washington state native whose father was in the Air Force, had come to celebrity by being on the swim team at Hollywood High. Now, there were invitations from one of the biggest stars in the world. "He'd call and say, 'Hi what are you doing? Do you want to get a video?' We'd sneak out without security. We got caught. I thought, 'Oh my God! This is like a Beatles film. We're getting chased by people.'" Rowe and Jackson: The Early Years Rowe says that her early relationship with Jackson was fun and friendly but basically frivolous. She had recently come out of a first marriage and Jackson was about to wed Lisa Marie Presley.

There was plenty of talk suggesting Michael's 1994 marriage to Lisa Marie Presley was merely an attempt to boost an image that had been tarnished by accusations of child molestation and a general perception of weirdness. But some who knew the couple together said it was the real thing. Michael and Lisa Marie talked about having children together, and Lisa Marie's recent blog speaks of true love. During their marriage, Michael had a musical rejuvenation, releasing "HIStory," a best- selling CD that included the ballad "You Are Not Alone." But loving as it may have been, after 19 months, the marriage to Lisa Marie crumbled. Rowe said that left her friend Jackson devastated. "I was trying to console him, because he was really upset. He was upset because he really wanted to be a dad. I said,'So be a dad.' He looked at me puzzled. That is when I looked at him and said. 'Let me do this. I want to do this. You have been so good to me. You are such a great friend. Please let me do this.

You need to be a dad, and I want you to be.'" It was an offer friends said had a built-in appeal to the King of Pop, who told them he wanted children with blond hair and blue eyes; Debbie Rowe fit the bill. At some point the bill would come due. But Rowe said initially hers was a heartfelt offer to a generous and loving man she thought should be a father. "I believe there are people who should be parents, and he's one of them. And he is such a fabulous man, and such a good friend, and he's always been there for me, always, from the day I met him," Rowe said. Although she has consistently refused to discuss the couple's sex life, in this 2003 interview Rowe did say she was pregnant well before she and Michael were wed. "There were people following me, there were people in front of my apartment, and it's scary. I mean, yeah they want a picture, but why? Why? I found out at one point that a picture of me pregnant was worth half a million dollars." Among those making money on the pregnancy, it's been repeatedly suggested that Debbie Rowe was paid to breed Michael's children.

She's repeatedly denied this -- but admitted there were certain natural benefits to being Mrs. Michael Jackson, a title she said she assumed for only one reason. "To prevent some of the taboo of a child out of wedlock. The kids were going to have it hard enough as it was, and they didn't need to have that label upon them like their father has had so many placed upon him, they shouldn't." While Jackson was on tour for the "HIStory" release in Australia in 1996, Rowe and Jackson wed in a private ceremony. 'Michael Was Definitely More Excited Than I Was,' Rowe Said in 2003 Their first child was a gift, said Rowe, that she wanted to give her husband Michael Jackson. The package was delivered Feb. 13, 1997, at L.A.'s Cedars Sinai Hospital. "We were very excited. Michael was definitely more excited than I was. He was so excited when we had a contraction, and he was there. We had videos and music," Rowe said of the 23-hour labor. "But he was there the whole time.

Held my hand, stroked my head." "I had a very 'colorful' language, and every time I went to say something, Michael would cut me off with words like 'shoot' and 'fudge.' He didn't like curses. He didn't think it was necessary when other words would do," she said. With the birth of their first child, Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., whom they called Prince, Rowe said that she never saw Jackson so happy. "And that's what made it wonderful for me was to see the look on his face," she said. Within three years of Prince's birth, Jackson and Rowe would divorce. According to court documents, Rowe gladly relinquished custody of the children. Rowe and Jackson: Untraditional Parents, Family For several years in interviews and court testimony, Rowe spoke highly of Jackson as a father and said that she had given birth to Jackson as a gift. "I didn't do it to be a mother. I didn't change diapers. I didn't get up in the middle of the night, even when I was there, Michael did it all," she said.

"We had a boom box, you know, we had the music on, and conversation, wow, here comes another one, Michael was so excited! And he brought Prince, and I said, 'Are you sure he needs to be here?' So, this is like, you know. And he said, 'but this is so beautiful'. In 2003, Rowe said that following the birth of their second child, a daughter, Paris, now 11, Jackson took the children and sent Rowe to live in a Beverly Hills mansion. "You know what Michael did? He got me the most fabulous place to live. If you read the tabloids, it's the enclave of the enclave, Beverly Hills, which I have no idea what an enclave is, if it's chic-chic it's cool. I don't know. It's wonderful, beautiful yard, a place for my dogs to run and safe. And I went home. I recovered in my new home," Rowe said. In the 2000 divorce, Rowe relinquished custody. In another hearing in 2001, she relinquished parental rights.

In testimony before the court, Rowe said she had little contact with the children and wanted to remain out of their lives. "I did it for him to become a father, not for me to become a mother. You earn the title parent. I have done absolutely nothing to earn that title," she told the court. It now seems eerie, but when lawyers asked if she had "ever considered the possibility if Michael should die, what would happen to the children," Rowe said she trusted Jackson to pick an appropriate guardian. "I'm sure he has a wonderful person in mind to take care of them," she told the court. Rowe vs. Media Perfect as Debbie Rowe said their personal arrangement turned out to be, there would be something their marriage couldn't survive -- the media attention surrounding Jackson. In death, and in life, Rowe said Michael Jackson was hounded, misunderstood and abused by the media. Earlier this week, Rowe hurled expletives at the media, who lambasted her outside an L.A. restaurant. She felt that way when she gave this interview six years ago. "You can only take lies for so long, and I have reached my limit, and that is why I'm doing this.

I am tired of the lies, and I'm tired of the b***sh*it. He's -- the sad thing is that you guys won't get to see my Michael. And I feel sorry for you guys, because he is a very special human being. The personal Michael is indescribable. He's magnanimous. He truly is in every way." "Had it not been for all the media stuff, I would have stayed married to him forever unless he finally got tired of me." Minimal as her involvement with the children had been during their marriage, after the divorce Debbie Rowe said it was her idea to keep the children's public faces hidden with scarves and masks. "That was my request, not his. Michael is very proud of his children. I am the one who is terrified someone is going to take his children. I said, 'You know what, I wear scarves, and it's no big deal. I said to pretend its Halloween,'" Rowe said in 2003. In 2002, Jackson had a third child with another surrogate, whose name has never been made public.

That child, Prince Michael II -- also known as Blanket -- who is now 7, made headlines when Jackson dangled him over a Berlin balcony before hundreds of screaming fans. In 2003, Rowe defended Jackson and his actions, saying, "I thought, 'Oh wow, look at the new baby.' He had a death grip on that child. That child wasn't going anywhere except right back in the room with him," Rowe said of the accident. "There's nothing inappropriate. It may not have been the best thing he's ever done in his life, but certainly I think it was made too big a deal of." She says the media "took it and ran. ... They blew it up into something it's not." Rowe Called 'Star Witness' in Child Molestation Case A 2003 accusation of child molestation led to a 2005 trial. Rowe was called by the prosecution, on the theory that a bitter divorce would make her a good character witness against Jackson. "The ones that were stunned were the prosecutors and the sheriffs, because they thought she was going to be a star witness for them, but she was a star witness for us," said Tom Mesereau, Jackson's lawyer.

"I think they hoped she would say that Michael was not a good father because they were in the middle of a contentious divorce. ... She said in effect that Michael was a loving father, that people were taking advantage of him, and she really helped us humanize him for the jury," Mesereau said. When Jackson was acquitted of all charges, Rowe was seen as someone still firmly in the Jackson camp. But after his death, a bitter split became obvious. Custody Battle Looms for Jackson Children Those close to the Jackson family now say this woman who seemed so willing to pass on the job of motherhood wants custody of the children she all but ignored. On June 29, four days after Jackson, 50, suffered apparent cardiac arrest in his Los Angeles rental home, a court granted temporary guardianship of Jackson's three children, ages 7 to 12, to their grandmother Katherine Jackson, 79. Another hearing will be held July 13 to reconsider the guardianship. Sources close to Rowe's lawyers have said her legal team plans to attend that hearing.

Rowe's lawyers have not formally said she will ask a court to grant her custody, but Rowe last week gave an interview to a Los Angeles television station in which she said, "I want my children." Rowe has had little contact with her children, son Prince Michael, now 12, and daughter Paris, now 11, since she divorced Jackson in 2000. Despite her absence in the children's lives, Rowe retained parental rights and legal experts said her biological relationship to the children gsve her a valid claim to seek custody. "Biology is very, very important," Judge Stephen Lachs -- the judge who restored Rowe's parental rights in 2003 -- told ABCNews.com. "It's a very important factor when considering custody. But it's only one thing. When a judge looks at the best interest of children, you have to look at all the factors," he said. "A judge is going to look at everything, including if there were settlements and how much they were for," said Lachs. ABC News' Russell Goldman contributed to this report. 0 Shares

Question: Which famous singer married Debbie Rowe in 1986?
Answer: Michael Jackson